Please rank these undergrad Economics schools

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<p>Please rank these schools for undergrad economics:</p>

<p>Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin
Brown
Colby
Cornell
Dartmouth
Middlebury
Swarthmore
Vassar
Wesleyan
Williams
Yale</p>

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<p>don't know about the rest but Chicago would have the best</p>

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<p>Yale
Dartmouth
Wesleyan
Williams
Bates
Cornell
Middlebury
Swarthmore
Amherst
Bowdoin
Brown
Colby
Vassar</p>

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<p>thanks. anyone else?</p>

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<p>Yale/Williams
Dartmouth
Cornell/Middlebury
Brown
Amherst
Vassar
Swarthmore
Wesleyan
Bates
Bowdoin
Colby</p>

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<p>anyone know of rankings of Economics programs (not business programs)?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eeconed/issues/v34_4/6.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/issues/v34_4/6.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>It's an old study, but I think if you do a lexis/nexus search of Wesleyan, Amherst Williams, Vassar etc. + "economics" a rough ranking order will bear it out(even controlling for all the other Wesleyans out there. :) )</p>

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<p>A recently published report studied the undergraduate origins of recent PhDs in economics. This is not the only way to measure the quality of undergraduate economics programs, but at least has the virtue of involving real data rather than random opinion on CC. The link to the study is here:
<a href="http://www.econ.duke.edu/aeasp/seminar_files/seminar2006_files/Undergraduate_Origins_May_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.econ.duke.edu/aeasp/seminar_files/seminar2006_files/Undergraduate_Origins_May_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>If you control for the size of the undergraduate institution the top economics programs are, in order:</p>

<p>Swarthmore
Agnes Scott
Grinnell
Williams
Harvard
Macalester
Princeton
Trinity
MIT
Stanford
Yale
Wabash
Bowdoin
Chicago
Oberlin</p>

<p>If you control for the number of economics major graduates the top schools are as follows (be prepared to be surprised):</p>

<p>Illionois Wesleyan
Swarthmore
Bemidji State
Earlham
Reed
Grinnell
Wheaton (IL)
University of Memphis
Agnes Scott
University of Alabama
Concordia College
Oberlin College
MIT
Carleton
Trinity</p>

<p>The authors of the paper remark on the strong representation of LAC graduates in Economics PhDs. They also note that LAC graduates have a higher completion rate in PhD programs.</p>

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<p>Thank you all. That new study is very interesting and relevant. I look forward to reading it more thoroughly.</p>

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<p>Any other suggestions on how to rank this list?</p>

<p>Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin
Brown
Colby
Cornell
Dartmouth
Middlebury
Swarthmore
Vassar
Wesleyan
Williams
Yale</p>

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<p>Well, all I know is that U of Chicago's economics program is the best.</p>

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<p>OK without regard to ranking, what are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Economics programs at these schools?</p>

<p>LACs:
Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wesleyan, Williams</p>

<p>Ivies:
Brown, Dartmouth, Yale</p>